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- For other uses, see Justice (disambiguation).
Justice (French justice from Latin justitia, from justus "just") is a concept involving the system of consequences which naturally derives from any action or choice. In this, it is similar to many laws of physics; a prominent example of one is the Third of Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion, which states that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Justice in some form or another affects all things in the universe; in the context of human actions, it means according individuals or groups what they actually deserve or merit, or are in some sense entitled to (classic Latin concept of unicuique suum). Justice is a particularly foundational concept within most systems of law, and draws highly upon established and well-regarded social traditions and values. From the perspective of pragmatism, it is the name for a fair result (thus, these views are not often representative of true justice, as justice and fairness are two entirely different topics). In most cases what one regards as "just" (not necessarily meaning what is just) is determined by consulting established and agreeable principles, employing logic, or, natural law In certain systems justice is determined, by consulting a majority, or in social contexts where religion dominates, justice may be thought to require deference to religious texts or to spiritual guidance, under a monarchy or authoritarian state the ruler/s determined what was just and doled out justice. All of these determinants of justice have at times delivered particularlly dark periods of history where justice was seen to be absent.
If a person lives under a certain set of laws in a country, concepts of "justice" are often simply deferential to the existing law —the issuing of punitive reprimands for violations may be referred to as "serving justice." In principle, this fits the general concept in that the individuals get what is supposedly due to them.
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RT @khiavdim: "He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; ⦠http://rea ...
Alacransita84 (Cristina) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:29:59 -0000
RT @khiavdim: "He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; … http://rea ...
"He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; ⦠http://read.ly/Deut32.4.NKJV
khiavdim (Kelly Lee) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:27:30 -0000
"He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; … http://read.ly/Deut32.4.NKJV
RT @spiritualite: La plus grande injustice c'est que Dieu ne soit pas aimé.
SoleilRose (Suzanne F.) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:22:50 -0000
RT @spiritualite: La plus grande injustice c'est que Dieu ne soit pas aimé.
Oxfam America: Working together to end poverty and injustice http://reachgivers.org/getreaches/r?i=19
reachgivers (Reach Givers) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:03 -0000
Oxfam America: Working together to end poverty and injustice http://reachgivers.org/getreaches/r?i=19
aaaa wrote a new blog post: Guns, butter, and social injustice http://bit.ly/7Gttxf
preampree (phuket thongosm) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:59:17 -0000
aaaa wrote a new blog post: Guns, butter, and social injustice http://bit.ly/7Gttxf
The world would be a far sadder place if we only fought injustice that affected us directly.
qaphsiel (Cary) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:52:56 -0000
The world would be a far sadder place if we only fought injustice that affected us directly.
Boycott Brazil - Background information and current status of John Gregory Lambros illegal extradition and imprisonment. Updated regularly with current legal documents on the active court case.
Executing the Retarded! Imprisoning Kids! - Cartoons about the oddities of the US legal system.
Meta Description: [ Cartoons about President Bush's flip-flop on carbon dioxide emissions regulations. ]
Justice - Stories of injustice from around the world, to which the visitor may add. Includes surveys and links.
Meta Description: [ Stories of injustice from around the world, to which the visitor may add. Includes surveys and links. ]
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Penal Reform International - Information about hundreds of thousands of people being held in prisons worldwide, many who are innocent.
Meta Description: [ ,PRI promotes penal reform in partnership with organisations and individuals seeking good practice within criminal justice systems. ]
Polygraph Evidence in Court - Examining polygraph results as a sensible approach to the problem of wrongful convictions due to perjury by police, jailhouse informants, and co-operating prosecution witnesses.
Meta Description: [ Presents the idea that courts
can use polygraph results to exclude testimony where an
examination has found a witness to be deceptive, and
that result is corroborated by non-deceptive result
on the opposing side. The pairing of results reduces by a
factor of at least five the uncertainty tha... ]
The Injustice Line - True stories of government outrages, especially those involving judges, courts and lawyers. Read about President Lincoln, President Clinton, Michigan Governor John Engler, comedian Tim Allen, the war on people who use some drugs, and the death of the Constitution.
Meta Description: [ The Injustice Line contains true stories of government outrages, especially those involving judges, courts and lawyers. Read about President Lincoln, President Clinton, Michigan Governor John Engler, comedian Tim Allen, the war on people who use some drugs, and the death of the Constitution. ]
The Innocence Project - A non-profit legal clinic which only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. Cases, news, related links, and details about the clinic.
Meta Description: [ The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. ]
The Portia Campaign - Fighting against miscarriages of justice in the UK.
Tough Justice - Miscarriages of justice in Britain - with links to other such sites and the Tom Sargant Memorial web page. Extensive casework on the George Beattie and Anthony Steel cases.
True Stories of Injustice to Innocent Americans - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers provide this and related pages concerning justice and the innocent.
Truth in Justice - A non-profit organization working to free innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful convictions by alerting the public to the vulnerabilities in the U.S. criminal justice system that make these miscarriages possible.
Meta Description: [ wrongful conviction, innocence, criminal justice, exoneration, junk science, DNA, police misconduct, prosecutor misconduct, ineffective assistance, innocence projects, faulty eyewitness identification, wrongful conviction, innocence, criminal justice, exoneration, junk science, DNA, police miscon... ]
Victims Of False Sexual Abuse Accusations - Highlighting the plight of persons who have been tried and acquitted of sexual offenses.
Meta Description: [ This site is dedicated to those surviving false accusations of sexual abuse ]
Win at All Costs - A special report by the Pittsburgh Post - Gazette on how attourneys and federal agents lie, hide evidence, engage in coverups, pay for perjury, and set up innocent people on order to win indictments, guilty pleas and convictions - a two-year investigation.
Witchhunt Information Page - Bizarre allegations resembling those of the witchhunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Information and legal documents including selections from legal briefs, court decisions, and trial transcripts.
Meta Description: [ descriptions and legal documents concerning ritual sexual abuse witchhunts (witch hunts) and people imprisoned by them ]
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